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Coming up... A deepening dispute on the tip of Europe. Britain threatens | :00:13. | :00:21. | |
unprecedented Europe -- action against Spain. Amid the tensions, | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Britain is sending warships to the region in what it says is a routine | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
visit. Is that help people in Spain see it? | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Zimbabwe's President defends his recent election victory and tells | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
his opponents they can go hang if they do not like the result. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
A major rethink on who should be jailed in the United States. The | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Attorney General says some drug business should not be jailed at | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
all. Did the authorities in Rome ever | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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expect this much traffic? They begin to crack down on cars. | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
Good evening. It is less than six square kilometres in size, has a | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
population of 30,000 people and for 300 years has been British. | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
Gibraltar is also contentious. Wayne claims sovereignty and recently | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
tightened its border controls in a dispute over fishing rights with the | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
tiny British territory. UK government has threatened | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
unprecedented action with its EU and NATO partner to end the crisis. Our | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
correspondent reports. This ship is sailing from Portsmouth today and is | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
headed for the Spanish coast. These powerful pictures can be misleading. | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
This is not a response to Spain's action on its border with Gibraltar. | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
It is part of a long planned naval exercise which will see Royal Navy | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
warships calling at Gibraltar and the Spanish naval base. Spain is a | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
NATO ally. Nonetheless, some like to see this as a symbol of Britain's | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
power, just as the government threatens possible legal action | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
against Spain. This is what Britain says Spain must stop. The imposition | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
of border checks causing long queues and delay and anger and frustration | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
at Westminster. A government spokesman says legal action is being | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
considered. Officials say it is disproportionate and politically | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
motivated, designed to drive Britain towards concessions. It has been a | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
British overseas territory for 300 years. The Spanish response is | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
learnt. It says it has the right to operate rigorous controls and an | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
obligation to fight what they allege is widespread smuggling. There is | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
nothing new about this dispute and it has been running for yours. It | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
got worse today with Britain threatening what it calls | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
unprecedented legal action. The trouble was going to the courts for | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
either side is that you can never guarantee the outcome. Legally, the | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
issue comes down to whether the people in Gibraltar at EU citizens. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
The United Kingdom's position is that for these purposes they are. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
Under those circumstances, Spain is allowed to impose minimal Chak -- | :03:29. | :03:39. | |
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checks. Spain has contested that. Spain is proposing Sarah checks. | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
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ferret checks. Some people have said the people of Gibraltar... | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
TRANSLATION: Both countries have different opinions but I think it is | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
a smoke screen to detract from the problems in Spain. Personally I care | :04:03. | :04:13. | |
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more about the Spanish problems that we must resolve. British warships | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
may be on their way to the Mediterranean but that is pure | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
coincidence. The political and legal argument will decide the dispute. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
With me is the Director General for Foreign Policy at Spain's Ministry | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
of Foreign Affairs. Is it a coincidence that the border checks | :04:33. | :04:43. | |
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have become so vigorous? For us the concern is of course the checks on | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
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the fisheries. We agreed certain situations with the UK government. | :04:58. | :05:08. | |
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We have a responsibility. We must work together. The decision taken by | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
the British authorities and the authorities in Gibraltar have | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
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affected her situation. We have to review the situation. Are you | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
suggesting that the increase in the rigorous nests of these border | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
checks is a consequence of the fact that these boulders were thrown down | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
to create the artificial reef? at all. It is a different situation. | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
You have their souls coming Judah brought -- coming to Gibraltar for | :05:53. | :06:02. | |
transport. -- vessels coming. The Spanish authorities have to control | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
what is happening. We had issues with smuggling so we must work to | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
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control what is happening. We have all the information at our disposal | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
to explain what is happening. Our actions are proportionate. We are | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
trying to fight against smuggling in the area. Is spending seven hours on | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
the border proportionate? It depends on the number of people you have to | :06:44. | :06:53. | |
control. There are borders we must control. For example at Heathrow | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
airport you have long queues. There are people who must control this and | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
it is the same here. We have seen an increase in smuggling and we must | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
act directly as a consequence. British government suggests that it | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
could take the case to the European Union and this could become a -- | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
illegal issue. Does that concern you? Not at all. We have given the | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
information to the European Commission. They are going to come | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
over in September and October to these areas and check out what is | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
happening. It is a regular check that they will do and we are more | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
than ready to give them the information they require. Thank you. | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
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We can cross to Madrid where are our correspondent awaits. Our guests | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
said the increase integration and the border checks in place is not as | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
a direct consequence of the artificial barrier. How are people | :08:19. | :08:27. | |
in Spain seen this issue? I think people away from the area just by | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
the border with Gibraltar, the area just over the border, people have a | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
very different opinion. I think allot of people in Spain feel | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
passionately that Gibraltar should be part of Spain. That is despite | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
the history and despite the fact that it was given to Britain over | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
300 years ago. But then you go to different areas, we were in | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Gibraltar over the last few days, and there you get different | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
opinions, not just from British and local people, but also from Spanish | :09:05. | :09:14. | |
people. The communities in Spain and Gibraltar are very mixed. Thousands | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
of people work in southern Spain and live in Gibraltar so there is a huge | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
commuter belt of people every day. What about the reports that | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Gibraltar and the issue of the Falkland islands could be brought up | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
in the European Union? I spoke to officials in the building behind me | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
in Madrid and they have confirmed that. The Spanish government is now | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
looking at the possibility of taking the issue of Gibraltar to the United | :09:46. | :09:54. | |
Nations. It is so looking at taking a common front with Argentina. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Argentina has an issue with Britain over sovereignty of the Falkland | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
Islands, another British territory, and Britain and Argentina went to | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
war over that territory in 1982. Spain interestingly is studying all | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
the possibilities. The foreign ministers of Spain and Argentina are | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
due to meet and they will discuss the possibility of forming a common | :10:16. | :10:26. | |
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front. The possibility is that Spain can take the issue in front of the | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
United Nations. Britain is a permanent member on the UN Security | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
Council and it can veto any resolution put before the council. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
There is diplomacy going on, pressure on both sides, both | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
countries, Spain and Britain are now taking action and making gestures, | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
saying what they could do. The reality of what that would mean in | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
practice could be quite limited. will see what happens. Thank you. | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
The newly re-elected President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has brushed | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
aside claims he stole the election. In his first speech since the boat, | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
he had strong words for his rivals. He thanked the country for its | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
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support. -- since the boat. -- since the result. He has said he will take | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
Zimbabwe forward. The economy is teetering on the brink. For more | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
than three decades he has ruled. The 89-year-old now has five more years | :11:38. | :11:47. | |
in power. This commemoration was for those who died in independence. His | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
speech was the chance to link that with the ballot but many people | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
consider is undermined by cheating. We are delivering democracy. We have | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
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delivered it on a platter. Do you take it? We say take it or leave it. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
He thanked the observers for their support. The opposition leader | :12:11. | :12:21. | |
Morgan China right did not attend the event. He says the event -- the | :12:21. | :12:31. | |
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result was rigged. -- Morgan Tsvangirai. Those who are hurting | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
from defeat can go and hang themselves he said. And with his own | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
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unique colour and tone of phrase he added... Even the dogs won't come | :12:51. | :13:00. | |
and sniff their corpses. The opposition Movement for | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Democratic Change was confident of victory going into the elections. | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
But when defeat came, they rejected the official result and the | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai challenges the outcome under the | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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chart -- constitutional court. He issued his statement. It seems | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
unlikely the Constitutional Court will side with the opposition. It | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
will not be long before President Mugabe will be up on stage once | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
again being inaugurated. He is the only leader this country has ever | :13:43. | :13:52. | |
had. With American prisons full to | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
bursting point the US Justice Department has been reviewing its | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
role on sentencing for drug offences. A short while ago the US | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
Attorney General outline some major changes designed to improve | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
sentencing policy across the country. He spoke to the American | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
Bar Association in San Francisco and said less serious offences would not | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
require minimum prison sentences. Some of the enforcement priorities | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
have had a destabilising effect on particular communities. Applied | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
inappropriately, they are ultimately counter-productive. That is why I | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
have mandated a modification for the target policy so that certain | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
low-level, non-violent drug offenders with no ties to | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
large-scale organisations are cartels will no longer be charged | :14:45. | :14:55. | |
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with offences that impose Draconian minimum sentences. They now will be | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
charged with offences for which the accompanying sentences are better | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
suited to the individual conduct, rather than excessive as interns. -- | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
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prison terms. How will this change in policy help to alleviate prison | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
numbers. The Federal bureau of prisons says 47% of inmates in | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
America are in prison for drug offences. 45% of those prisoners are | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
therefore low-level offences. Our correspondent has listening to his | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
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speech and she joins us now. What do these changes mean? | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
The Attorney General is recognising that the present system is | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
unsustainable and counter-productive. He said that | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
there is a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality, and | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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incarceration. We have a black prison population that is 37%, with | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
blacks only making up for 9% of the population as a whole. He wants to | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
break the vicious cycle that traps certain communities and find a way | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
to reduce the prison population. Nearly half of all prisoners are | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
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there for her -- drug-related offence is. 5% of the worlds | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
population and 25% of the world's prison population - US prisons are | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
semantically overpopulated. -- dramatically. He wants to direct | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
prosecutors to write up charges differently so that instead of | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
triggering a mandatory minimum sentences they can avoid that I | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
simply not writing the amount of drugs found, for instance. That is a | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
legacy of the war on drugs from the 1980s, he claims we can stop doing | :17:19. | :17:28. | |
that by taking simple measures. Thank you for talking us through | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
that. Authorities in Egypt have disposed | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
of plans to disperse of set and is being conducted by supporters of the | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
ousted president, Mohammed Morsi. -- sit-ins. The decision was made in | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
order to avoid bloodshed, meanwhile the judiciary has extended the | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
detention of the former president by another set nine days pending | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
investigations into his alleged collaboration with how mass. -- 15 | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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days. -- how mass. -- Hamas. The younger brother of Prince | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Willem-Alexander has died having been in a coma since as skiing | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
accident last year. Rinse fries or was on holiday with his family in | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
the Austrian Alps. -- Prince Friso. He was skiing with a friend when the | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
avalanche came and was trapped under the snow for 20 minutes, his fame | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
starved of oxygen. The family made sombre visits to the University | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Hospital in Innsbruck before he was transferred to London for specialist | :18:47. | :18:56. | |
treatment. Prince Friso had been married for almost a decade. But | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
because it was a marriage without consent he lost his membership of | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
the royal house and was no longer in line to succeed the Dutch throne. | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
But his mother approved. -- succeed too. The Dutch royal family are | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
popular. Thousands turned out to watch William Alexander becoming | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
king earlier this year. This is the palace. With the announcement of any | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
royal death you could expect to find crowds. But there are a few people. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
They may have gone to the alternative residence, where Prince | :19:37. | :19:46. | |
Friso returned to last month, or it could be that people simply | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
anticipated it, they are upset but not shocked. The Dutch play minister | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
paid his respects with a statement expressing sympathy for the family. | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
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union official has been shot dead at a platinum mine in South Africa, | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
where 34 workers were killed by police last year. The National union | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
of Mineworkers said the woman was shot outside her home. Tensions have | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
led to several shootings at platinum mines over the last year. A Nazi war | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
coals suspect has died whilst awaiting train -- trial. He was | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
suffering a number of medical problems. He is alleged to have | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
helped report 15,000 Jews to death camps. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
The names have been released of Palestinian prisoners set to be | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
freed as part of a peace deal. The announcement comes after Palestinian | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
officials accused Israel of trying to sabotage negotiations by | :21:06. | :21:14. | |
approving fodder settlements. -- more. | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
Her head of population Roma has more than three times as many cars as | :21:19. | :21:29. | |
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London. -- Rome. The very centre of the city. An endless frenzy of | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
traffic. An eternal rush hour in the terrible city. They say that all | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
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roads lead to Rome. -- eternal city. Cars flood the piazza is here. The | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
modern city as struggling to cope with the invasion. Drivers with race | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
down through the heart of the historic centre, reducing the | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
Coliseum to not much more than a roundabout. A famous building | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
located in a torrent of traffic, fumes, vibrations. But suddenly | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
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there is a very different at just. Can has fallen. -- calm. It is | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
thanks to the new mayor, a cycling enthusiast. He plans to | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
pedestrianise the area completely. We need to make a choice. Yesterday | :22:38. | :22:48. | |
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as talking to others in a place like this. -- history is talking to us. | :22:48. | :22:57. | |
With all the traffic diverted away, it has to go somewhere. It is being | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
channelled down side streets and the local residents do not approve. | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
agree with protecting the Coliseum, but it cannot be done at our | :23:07. | :23:17. | |
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expense. Pollution will come to our area and cars will block everything. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
But the millions of tourists who are drawn to the Coliseum well of the | :23:22. | :23:32. | |
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underwent a life-saving double lung transplant. Five years later he has | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
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someone from Alcatraz island to San matters. If you can imagine being in | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
a swimming pool when somebody dunks your head under water. All you can | :24:08. | :24:17. | |
think about is getting back to the surface. Everything else disappears. | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
My disease was a tape of pulmonary fibrosis. No cure. The only | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
treatment was a transplant. My children were very young. They said, | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
listen, you need to do this or you will die. I had no choice. I cannot | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
think of any other situation like that. You are waiting on somebody | :24:43. | :24:52. | |
either been killed or dying so you can get the organ. I got two longs. | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
It sounds unbelievably difficult. -- lungs. I woke up, took a deep | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
breath, I could not believe it. The longevity statistics are terrible. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
So when I approached the Friday year mark I thought, I should do | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
something big. -- five-year. I thought this would be fun to do. I | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
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went in first. My son followed. Then my daughter. It was freezing. | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
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looked further than I expected. I kind of was scared by that! | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
vastness of the ocean is magnificent. I love the feeling of | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
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having all that debt the below you. you are in your 40s you will live | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
until your 50s, 60s, everybody living longer. That is not my | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
assumption. You have to take each day as it | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
comes and a PC it what you are doing. Spend time with your family. | :26:25. | :26:35. | |
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-- appreciate. You do not know where BBC News website. You can read a | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
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diary account of Gavin's task. From the showers today. A number of them | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
around, particularly to the North. They are clearing away. And we will | :27:13. | :27:21. | |
have a meteor shower. Take a look at the sky for a a few minutes and if | :27:21. | :27:29. | |
you are lucky you may see one of those shooting stars. Tomorrow, | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
increasing cloud across central areas. These areas, probably | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
clothing over most of the day. It looks as though the south coast will | :27:43. | :27:53. | |
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be dry. Temperatures reaching about 19 Celsius. Used words, you can | :27:55. | :28:05. | |
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